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HORTICULTURE 



July 10, 1920 



FRIIVIU 



OBCONICA CHINENSIS MALACOIDES 



OBCONICA, Separate colors or mixed 

 CHINENSIS MIXED. 2^4 inch pots, $7 per 100; $60 per 1,000. 

 Ready Now. Raised from Selected Seed 



CINERARIA, Half Dwarf Mixed, 2V4 inch pots, $7 per 100; $60 per 1,000. 



LI RFITTFR PO ^'""' 15 C«dar St., WATERTOWN STA. 

 • *!• IxCjV/ I £«I\ V^V-f« Brokers boston, mass. 



Short P. O. Addvess: L. J. Reuter Co., Boston 72, Mass. 



George Watson^s 

 Garner 



"Too in your snuiU corner and me 

 In mine." 



F. Moren Babcock o£ N. Y. City is 

 out for W. P. Therkildson as secre- 

 tary of Agriculture. Some of those in 

 the horticultural line in Philadelphia 

 think that if we go into politics we 

 ought to go a step higher than what 

 Mr. Babcock suggests and make cur 

 slate as follows: 



For President, W. F. Therkildson; 

 Vice-President Israel Rosnosky; Secy. 

 of State, Frank P. Myers; Secy, of 

 Treasury, Miss Anna Jarvis; Secy, of 

 Navy, Adolph Farenwald ; Secy, of 

 Agriculture, Luther Burbank; Secy, of 

 Interior, L. K. Peacock; Postmaster 

 Gen., A. C. Zvolanek. 



This would cover a wide range in 

 horticultural annals, compliment the 

 founder of Mother's Day. and show 

 our high appreciation of people wide- 

 ly known in our business. 



Wm. H. Leonard is summering at his 

 seaside bungalow. Lavellette, N. J. 

 He reports the yachting and swim- 

 ming fine and the fishing fairly good 

 the past six weeks. Lansdowne sees 

 him only about twice a month. 



M. Henry Lynch. 



A telegram just received announced 

 the death in St. Vincent Hospital, 

 Indianapolis, ot M. Henry Lynch, aged 

 50, president of the Dingee & Co- 

 nard Company, of West Grove. He be- 

 came ill while on a visit to his brother, 

 Joseph, a few days ago. He was reared 

 in the rose growing business and gave 

 it life-long study. 



Henry Lynch was not so well known 

 away from his home town as his 



l)rother Joseph. His work was more 

 particularly in the office. He acted as 

 secretary and treasurer of the Dingee 

 & Conard Company for many years. He 

 was connected by marriage with the 

 founder of the company — the late 

 Charles Dingee having married his 

 sister. Henry was a quiet, unassum- 

 ing, gentle soul, beloved by all who 

 knew him. He started working in the 

 greenhouses when he was a little boy 

 and rose through successive stages to 

 l)e the head of the house. His brother 

 P. Joseph Lynch is secretary to the 

 Attorney-General of the State of 

 Indiana at present with headquarters 

 in Indianapolis, but still retains his in- 

 terest as an official of the West Grove 

 establishment, besides owning and 

 running a rose business of his own at 

 New Castle, Indiana. The deceased 

 owned a nice farm near the D. & C. 

 place and for the past year or two had 

 largely retired from active work in 

 the rose business leaving the hard 

 work to his youngest subordinates. The 

 heartfelt sympathy of the trade goes 

 out to his sorrowing family. 



THE MARKET. 



There has been very little change in 

 the market since last week. Flowers 

 are selling at practically the same 

 prices, and the market is very quiet, 

 no new developments of any kind be- 

 ing reported. 



NOT AT ALL DIFFICULT 



"Isn't it rather difficult to raise 

 roses at this season of the year?" 

 queried the customer. 



"On the contrary, it's dead easy," 

 remarked the florist. "Only this morn- 

 ing I raised them from $2.50 to $3.00 a 

 dozen." — Market Growers Journal. 



GRADUATES FROM SCHOOL OF 

 HORTICULTURE FOR WOMEN 



Twelve young women from various 

 sections of this country and Canada, 

 have just completed the spring course 

 at the School of Horticulture for 

 Women, at Ambler, Pa., and are now 

 gathering and preserving the fruits 

 and vegetables which they planted 

 early in April. 



In celebration of their succes.sful 

 harvest, the graduates were enter- 

 tained with a tea by Miss Jane B. 

 Haines, president of the school. 

 Among those who attended, was Miss 

 Eleanor FuUerton. a member of the 

 junior class, who just returned from 

 France where she assisted her father 

 in reconstruction work. 



The graduates include: Mrs. Rich- 

 ard Bishop, and Mrs. Henry Blomleyi 

 of Germantown; Mrs. N. C. Cragor, 

 ot Radnor: Mrs. William G. Horse, of 

 Chestnut Hill; Mrs. H. C. Quest, of 

 Ardmore; Mrs. Edward Rice, Jr., of 

 Logan; Miss Helen P. Mulliner. of 

 Camden; Miss H. D. Drayton, of 

 Maine; Miss Margaret G. Laidlaw, of 

 Toronto; Miss Anna L. Prichard. of 

 New Hampshire, and Mrs. F. M. Whit- 

 lock, of Cleveland. Ohio. 



Luther Burbank has been taken to 

 a sanitarium in San Francisco. 



GOOD WORDS FOR A FLORIST 



The language of flowers, their his- 

 tory, growth and cultivation, are as 

 an open book to Carl Reck, the Main 

 street florist, who. has been actively 

 engaged in the raising and selling of 

 every variety of flower and plant for 

 the last 25 years. Mr. Reck took over 

 the florist business established by his 

 father in 1874. 



Mr. Reek's hothouses and flower 

 shops have been institutioiis in 

 Bridgeport since the city was in its 

 infancy, and they have grown and ex- 

 panded in keeping with "New Eng- 

 land's greatest industrial center." — 

 BrkUjiport. Conn.. Telegram. 



